What if Pierrot is like an otter? Or another mammal. Part 2!
"Beneath the water."
Either pierrot can hold his breath for a long time underwater or he was some kind of sea animal. I think this also highlights the more animalistic nature - especially with hunting as he says it was "a lot of fun". Like how when he tells us not to run in our apartment because he'd like 'pulling us back', aka, capturing prey after hunting.
"When my mother was still alive" also hints that his mother may have died before his father did, or there's the off chance (which I doubt) that his father is still out there somewhere. Or, if like a shark, he was abandoned by his parental figure while he was young.
I don't know. I'd like to hear other people's takes on this.
We're used to thinking that circus performers have horns under their hats, but this has never been officially confirmed. Where did we even get this from? Silhouettes and hazy images from the past? That comic with the old costumes?
If it were all so obvious, why would Neko avoid answering this question so often and so much? That's interesting. It's been there from the very beginning, but now the situation seems more glaring, as if all the little details from the past are finally asking us to look back and think: "what if it's not horns at all?"
Let's just go ahead and drop this idea altogether. If it's not horns, then what? We know that monsters have extra limbs and all that. So, purely in theory, these could even be some kind of "arms" or other body parts that humans don't have.
From the comic about Pierrot's old outfit, we see a piece of something black under his hat, visually resembling a horn. But what if it's not horns, but, for example, quills like a porcupine's? Look at how narrow his hat is here, and how wide it is in the new version:
If he had horns, they probably couldn't be tied back like hair into a ponytail. But if these are long quills or something similar, they could easily be pressed closer to the body and against each other. And when agitated, porcupine quills stand on end — maybe that's why his hat got damaged and we saw this body part.
Also, take a look at Harlequin's hat:
The initial assumption was that either his horns grew over time and changed shape a bit, or it was just an artistic convention. But his first hat really is quite different from the second. It's a crazy idea, but what if it's something like ears?
We haven't seen monsters' ears yet (TT in human form doesn't count). So, you know, they could look like anything and be in the most unexpected places. The only thing that contradicts this idea is Harlequin's hat with bells. If there really were ears under it, it would be agonizing — constantly hearing that ringing inside, pff.
But look at the original design of the hat, and then look at his new hat — do you see anything that stayed the same? Those extra pieces of fabric covering the ear area.
It seems this only exists on Harlequin's clown hat. What if he just presses his ears closer to himself, and this fabric is exactly what hides them? You know, like rabbits or Nubian lopped goats:
Not every cap has to hide something — that's what I'm trying to say.
And what about Jester? What immediately catches my eye is that in his old costume, his front "little horns" stick out from the fabric, as if he wanted to hide exactly those.
In the new version, they're already visible, and his hat has become longer overall. But interestingly, it seems his old hat had only two compartments (I could be wrong, but it really does look like two, right?)
So what he's hiding under his hat might not even exist at all. Want to hide something? Put it in plain sight — and that's exactly what his horns did.
So, most likely, only Pierrot actually has something under his hat — horns or quills, doesn't matter. But what about the other two? Maybe there's something hidden under theirs too. Or maybe they're just empty. We don't know for sure, and honestly, that's not the main point right now. What matters more is this: even if Jester and Harlequin have nothing under their hats, it still works as camouflage. Because the most important thing is that we look where they want us to look, and not where we really should.
There's also another interesting detail — some elements in the costumes repeat. For example, as I already mentioned, these clown hats. They're the reason we all assumed that at least three performers have horns under them. But there's another curious detail. What about the cloak?
When we hugged Harlequin in the game, he wasn't very happy, and we felt something "strange" under his clothes. And when the Doctor was asked in the AMA if he could be hugged, he said "you might get scared". Hmmm, interesting, isn't it? At first, I thought we might be scared of the Doctor himself, since he's so big and frightening to many people. But when hugging, our hands touch the back — so that must be it.
Most likely, the Doctor's cloak isn't just a costume element — it's meant to visually conceal his physical features. And if someone as cautious as Pierrot lets us hug him, then our theory might be right — and the most obvious signs of monsters are indeed on the backs and bodies of Harlequin and the Doctor. (I could actually try adding TT to this list, but I'm not sure if his fitted jacket can be considered similar in purpose to the cloaks of these two.)
So what do we have in the end? We spent so much time studying hats, trying to guess what's under them — horns, quills, ears, or nothing. And the answer, perhaps, was never on the heads at all — but on the backs. Under the cloaks. In the details we've gotten used to overlooking.
Under Harlequin's hat, there might be something flexible — something he's learned to press flat against his head, because otherwise the bells would hit it with every step. Jester, perhaps, has nothing material under the fabric at all — just an unusual skull shape or growths that don't need to be hidden, but also aren't worth showing off.
Every detail of a costume is meant to hide something, but it can also exist purely for misdirection. And that's a brilliant survival tactic! If only Pierrot wore a hat, we'd immediately know he's a monster. But when the others wear similar hats — even if with different contents — attention scatters. You look at their heads, not noticing that the real clues are elsewhere: on the backs, under the cloaks, in the tactile sensations during hugs. Maybe we were looking in the wrong place all along, when the answer was always right on the surface — behind the fabrics we just got used to calling "part of the costume".
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Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".
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Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.
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